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Shana Abé is the award-winning author of nine novels, including The Smoke Thief. She lives in the Denver area with four surly pet house rabbits, all rescued, and a big goofy dog. Please, please support your local animal shelter, and spay or neuter your pets.


From the Hardcover edition.

They are the stuff of glittering legend, supersensual creatures able to shape-shift from human to smoke to dragon. Now they face an enemy determined to destroy their dazzling world of magic and passion. Queen of Dragons It’s a stunning claim: the existence of a lost drákon tribe. And it comes from an intriguing source: a woman calling herself Princess Maricara of Transylvania. Alpha lord Kimber Langford, Earl of Chasen, can’t ignore the possibility. For whoever this unknown princess may be, she’s dangerous enough to know about his existence—and where to find him. And indeed, it isn’t long before Maricara breaches the defenses of Darkfrith and the walls around Kimber’s heart. Yet the princess arrives with urgent news: a mysterious serial killer is targeting the entire drákon race. To save their kind, Kimber and Mari must ally themselves body and soul in a battle that can spell their salvation, their extinction…or both.

Jackie Cassada - Library Journal

Just as the shape-shifting drákons (they can change from human to smoke to dragon) thought their race was dying out, Kimber Langford, Earl of Chasen and Alpha lord of these creatures, discovers the possibility of another tribe existing in Transylvania led by Princess Maricara. As these leaders take measure of each other, a brutal serial killer threatens the very existence of the rare and sometimes benevolent drákons. Abé, who first introduced the drákons in The Smoke Thiefand The Dream Thief, adds a new element to the mix as the sensual drákons face their greatest fear-extinction. Abé's graceful storytelling and evocative details make this a good choice for adult fantasy collections.